Improvement in gate-latches



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IMPROVEMENT IN GATE-.Larnaca @Llp .tlgehnle refemh tu it' tlg'ise rttcrs @anni mit mating part nf the time.

TO ALL` WHOM IT M AY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, yPETER RAsARand D. J. MAYES, of Illiopolis, county of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improved Fastening for Gates, of `which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specication,in which-- Figure 1 represents a side;view-of a gate having our fastening.

Figure 2 represents an end view of same.

Figure 3 represents a top view of our catch.

Figure 4'represents a. front view of same. Figures 5 and 6 represent enlarged detached views ofparts of figs. 1 and 2. Similar letters indicate like parts. l

Through the frame, A, of an ordinary gate we mortise a latch, b, attached to a spring, e, figs. 1, 2, in the usnalway.

A double-barred spring, d, ligs. 1, 3, 4, is fastened to the'sid'e of the frame between which the gate swings,

. so that the opening betwee'u its 'ends shall coincide inpositin with the latch which is intended to enter it.

To explain the peculiar advantages of this fastening, we apply it to a self-closing gate, openingeither way by being made to revolve on friction-rollers, as at 7L, figs. 1, 2, 6and h t, fig. 5, since it isv with such-gates it is particularly necessary to have a fastening that will be sure to operate.` The gate being open, when itcloses,

the latch strikes one side offthe catch, o, fig. 4, for instance, which, yielding, divides the resistance with the -v spring c, while o remaining unmoved, renders it impossible for the gate to pass before the'latch catches, as is so often the case where the catch does not yield, but all the spring is in the latch, for then very frequently the latch does not return soon enough to catch before the4 gate hasswung by too far for it to operate.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,V

A gate-fastening, composed of the latch b and double spring d, constructed and arranged relatively to each other and the rest of the gate, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

PETER RASAR, D. J. Mayas.

Witnesses:

A. L. HERBST, F. M. GREEN. 

